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If you want to do a DR test, why not spin up the AD box on it's own VLAN? That way, you can do full test without impacting production. Just make sure to keep your DR test VLAN fully isolated from production.

Definitely play with the Veeam Virtual Lab. The SureBackup uses multiple VM backups for testing things like Exchange or SQL. You can configure the Virtual Lab on the other host and test galore. You can even add a workstation VM to the test and confirm the whole authentication and whatnot.

When the Lab is turned off, everything goes back. No changes are saved and this is an ideal way to test or break things in a safe manner. You can even set the lab to spin up from a certain backup date.

From my perspective, Virtual Lab should answer your requirements. You can restore there previously backed up DC and connect it via the virtual lab appliance. Such procedure should isolate restored DC from production.

Probably, you will have to restore DC in authoritative mode, since there will be no replication partners in the said sandbox. The exact steps have been previously described at our community forum; might be useful: